Gregory Billam
@gregorybillam.bsky.social
Modern British Historian | PhD in British and Australian communism | Transnational and comparative history | Labour History Review Essay Prize Winner 2022
Reposted by Gregory Billam
Migrants already "earn the right to settlement" through extortionate visa costs, which can run into tens of thousands of pounds. They prop up key services, including through the Immigration Health Surcharge.
Pushing the hostile environment on steroids helps no-one.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pushing the hostile environment on steroids helps no-one.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mahmood demands migrants earn right to settlement in UK
New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Migrants already "earn the right to settlement" through extortionate visa costs, which can run into tens of thousands of pounds. They prop up key services, including through the Immigration Health Surcharge.
Pushing the hostile environment on steroids helps no-one.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pushing the hostile environment on steroids helps no-one.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Gregory Billam
Migrants already carry out work for their communities, it’s called ‘having a fucking job’ and it’s mandatory because we aren’t eligible for benefits
"Migrants will have to carry out community work or volunteering to qualify to permanently remain in the UK, according to the Home Secretary." [Telegraph]
September 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Migrants already carry out work for their communities, it’s called ‘having a fucking job’ and it’s mandatory because we aren’t eligible for benefits
Labour's own Suella Braverman? It would be nice if a single media outlet mentioned that migrants have no recourse to public funds and pay an annual surcharge to even have the option to access the NHS.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
High standard of English to be required for leave to remain, Mahmood to pledge
Home secretary to set out proposed tougher conditions including not taking benefits and ‘spotless’ criminal record
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Labour's own Suella Braverman? It would be nice if a single media outlet mentioned that migrants have no recourse to public funds and pay an annual surcharge to even have the option to access the NHS.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Gregory Billam
I was one of the examiners of Gregory’s thesis on the Communist Parties of Great Britain and Australia in the early Cold War period, and thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
I've finally moved over from the other unnamed hellscape to shamelessly plug my newly finished PhD thesis on British and Australian communism. A special mention to my fantastic supervisor, Dan Gordon, and my examiners, Evan Smith and James Renton. research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/studentTh...
National communisms: British and Australian roads to socialism in the early Cold War period, 1945-56
research.edgehill.ac.uk
May 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I was one of the examiners of Gregory’s thesis on the Communist Parties of Great Britain and Australia in the early Cold War period, and thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
Reposted by Gregory Billam
Congratulations to Gregory on his thesis completion on British and Australian communism. He recently published an article in Twentieth Century Communism on the CPGB's empire conferences in 1947 and 1954, which was published in issue 26.
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2024...
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2024...
May 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Congratulations to Gregory on his thesis completion on British and Australian communism. He recently published an article in Twentieth Century Communism on the CPGB's empire conferences in 1947 and 1954, which was published in issue 26.
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2024...
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2024...
I've finally moved over from the other unnamed hellscape to shamelessly plug my newly finished PhD thesis on British and Australian communism. A special mention to my fantastic supervisor, Dan Gordon, and my examiners, Evan Smith and James Renton. research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/studentTh...
National communisms: British and Australian roads to socialism in the early Cold War period, 1945-56
research.edgehill.ac.uk
May 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I've finally moved over from the other unnamed hellscape to shamelessly plug my newly finished PhD thesis on British and Australian communism. A special mention to my fantastic supervisor, Dan Gordon, and my examiners, Evan Smith and James Renton. research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/studentTh...